There are no “yeah buts”

There are no “yeah but “.

When I coach people or even when I talk to myself from time to time there are situations that come up caused by the ego mind.

I see doubt set in in people I coach. Even the most seasoned people I coach fall prey to this from time to time.

I call it the “yeah but’s”.

It happens innocently. You’re having a conversation with me and we’re going over what you need to do and you blurt out “yeah but”.
“Yeah but my situation isn’t really the same”. “Yeah but I’m not really a morning person”. “Yeah but I was never good at visualizing things”. “Yeah but I wasn’t raised in a good household “.

Those “yeah buts” are the seemingly innocent reactions that our ego mind is throwing back into the equation to try to keep control. Those yeah buts are signals and clues to what is holding you back. Get rid of those and you’ll succeed.

Everything and everyone is your self pushed out. Because of this, there are no yeah buts in your life. You’re the one who has allowed yourself to be where you are right now either intentionally or unintentionally.

You have chosen the life you’re in because it was less painful to get up off of the couch to pull yourself away from the TV and sit quietly and imagine a better life for yourself. You stayed glued to that TV because it was more painful in your mind to actually take a few steps to make your life better than it is.
It was more painful to you to pick up a book and read it. It was more painful to take five minutes to imagine yourself in the arms of your special person and make it real for yourself.
Those things are out of your “comfort zone”. But that “comfort zone” is the very thing that is holding you back and it’s using the yeah buts to do it.

You can change all of that though. You can choose a different path by simply telling yourself “there are not yeah buts. “

You’re the one who created the life you now have. No one else did it. Every situation you’re facing now is a culmination of the decisions you have previously made in your life. You had the choice to react to a certain situation that led you down the path you’re on now. Not someone else. You reacted to the way someone treated you. They didn’t force you to react that way. You made a conscious choice to react.

When that person pulled out in front of you your the one who screamed at the top of your lungs what a knucklehead they were. You’re the one who simmered in that rage for the next hour. They didn’t force that upon you. You could have simply said, “I guess they needed that spot more than me” and headed off on your merry way.

You’re the one who decided to allow yourself to be the victim instead of saying “no”. That’s not the direction I’m going to take.

You’re the one that made the decision to stay put in front of that TV instead of turning it off and picking up a book and reading a chapter that could start to change your life forever.

You’re the one that hit the snooze button on your alarm to get those “extra five minutes of pretend sleep “ instead of hopping out of bed and starting a new day.

But you can change all of that right now.

No more yeah buts!!! Just do it!!!

Imagine the life you want and then just live from that imagination. See it in your mind all the time

“Yeah but I can’t visualize “. Then listen to someone in your mind tell you how proud they are of you and what you have accomplished.

There are no yeah buts. There are no excuses for you not to have the desires of your heart. None what so ever.

Become super aware of what your thoughts are and simply turn from the ones you don’t want to the ones you do want.
When you sense the yeah but coming, stop yourself and look at it. Don’t judge it, just look at it. It’s telling you exactly the thought you need to change.

You want a sign?!?! As Jeff Foxworthy would say…. “Here’s your sign”

Your “yeah but” is the stop sign that is screaming at you that you need to change that very thought.

See it and change it.

It’ll change the very direction of your life.

You’ve got this. Anthony.